If a wine drinker has a legal ruling, then what is the ruling for someone who consumes usury?
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The punishment for drinking alcohol is eighty or forty lashes. As for the one who consumes usury, there is no prescribed legal punishment for him; rather, his punishment is discretionary (ta'zeer), determined by the ruler. Usury is among the seven destructive sins and is more gravely prohibited than drinking alcohol. A dirham of usury knowingly consumed by a man is more severe than thirty-six acts of adultery. Usury has seventy categories of sinfulness, the least of which is like a man marrying his mother.
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